Anton LaVey. And the Necronomicom was gimmicky crap. Cool looking gimmicky crap but gimmicky crap nonetheless. Completely random trivia, in the movie Babylon A.D. (which had so much wasted possibility) Vin Diesels character had a tattoo which was lifted from the 70s version.

Just finished Moon is a Harsh Mistress. It's much better than I thought when I was a kid - the thing about Heinlein is that he's more sociologist and politician than he is author, and you have to have a taste for that. His descriptions are dry; he doesn't really "show" anything, just narrates with terse verbiage. But he has an excellent sense of history, engineering, and human nature, and the Lunar revolution he describes in Harsh Mistress is both interesting and plausible. A lot of his other work I think is overrated, but as hardcore science fiction, this one is excellent.

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Re-reading the hobbit.

Aha! Also a good one. A bit slow, unfortunately, but it's by far my favorite work by Tolkein.